Publications

*These authors contributed equally to this work
†These authors are co-corresponding authors

2025

Rohini Janivara, Ujani Hazra, Aaron Pfennig (author 3 out of 22), …, and Joseph Lachance, Uncovering the genetic architecture and evolutionary roots of androgenetic alopecia in African men, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100428

2024

Aaron Pfennig† and Joesph Lachance†, The evolutionary fate of Neanderthal DNA in 30,780 admixed genomes with recent African-like ancestry, bioRxiv, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.25.605203

2023

Aaron Pfennig, Alexandre Lomsadze, and Mark Borodovsky, MgCod: Gene Prediction in Phage Genomes with Multiple Genetic Codes, Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168159

Aaron Pfennig, Lindsay N Petersen, Paidamoyo Kachambwa, Joseph Lachance, Evolutionary genetics and admixture in African populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad054

Aaron Pfennig and Joseph Lachance, Challenges of accurately estimating sex-biased admixture from X chromosomal and autosomal ancestry proportions, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.12.012

2022

Carl J Dyson*, Aaron Pfennig*, Daniel Ariano-Sánchez, Joseph Lachance, Joseph R Mendelson III, Michael A D Goodisman, Genome of the endangered Guatemalan Beaded Lizard, Heloderma charlesbogerti, reveals evolutionary relationships of squamates and declines in effective population sizes, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac276

Aaron Pfennig and Joseph Lachance, Hybrid fitness effects modify fixation probabilities of introgressed alleles, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac113

Burcu F. Darst, Raymond Hughley, Aaron Pfennig (author 3 out of 101), …, and Christopher A. Haiman, A Rare Germline HOXB13 Variant Contributes to Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry, European Urology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.12.023

2021

Nirojah Subramaniam, …, Aaron Pfennig (author 9 out of 20), …, and Daniel Robert Engel, Proteomic and bioinformatic profiling of neutrophils in CLL reveals functional defects that predispose to bacterial infections, Blood Advances, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002949

Christopher J Dean, Ilya B Slizovskiy, Kathryn K Crone, Aaron Pfennig, Bradley J Heins, Luciano S Caixeta, and Noelle R Noyes, Investigating the Cow Skin and Teat Canal Microbiomes of the Bovine Udder Using Different Sampling and Sequencing Approaches, Journal of Dairy Science, 2021, https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18277